“I still want to know if he was carrying life insurance; and if so, how much. .....”
Ok. Let’s look at the wife, since so many of you are so sure she’s guilty.
How did she kill him? With a gun?? No gun was ever reported as being with the couple. Did she drown him?
Big guy...little woman....His parents also stand by her.
What about the eyewitness???
What about the Sheriff??? Is he covering for her??
Texas sheriff exonerates wife in jet-ski murder
[snip] Gonzalez completely rules out foul play on the part of Mrs. Hartley.
“A local witness saw Tiffany Hartley escaping on her jet-ski to the Texas side of the lake,” he said. “She came in at high speed and was being pursued by armed men in a Mexican fishing boat that that the witness clearly observed.”
Gonzalez said the witness was a long-standing member of the Zapata community who was well known to him and regarded as highly credible.
He said the statement of the witness was recorded in the police file but his name was being withheld from the public to protect his privacy.
“The testimony of this witness dispels any idea Mrs. Hartley was involved in any wrongdoing regarding the murder of her husband,” he said firmly. “She called in a 911 phone call to our office at around 2:20 p.m. on the day of the incident, immediately after she got to shore, and her statements to my office confirm what the local witness observed.”
Gonzales confirmed to WND that he had interviewed Mrs. Hartley himself.
He attributed the failure to recover David Hartley’s jet ski and his body to the unwillingness of Mexico to cooperate
“The drug cartels operate from an island on the Mexican side of the lake,” Gonzalez explained.
“Mexican law enforcement authorities do not control the lake – the pirates do,” he said. “Tons of illegal drugs are warehoused on that island by the drug cartels for smuggling into the United States, and the pirates are well armed.”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=211853
[snip]Gonzalez told CBS News he has blood evidence from Tiffany Hartley’s life vest that supports her version of events.
“Our information is indicating that the witness is reliable, the witness is truthful,” he said, citing “other evidence” that also backs up Tiffany’s claim. “I’m not at liberty to discuss it at this time, but it does indicate that she had nothing to do with” her husband’s disappearance.
Tamaulipas State Police say they have dispatched teams on land, in the water, and in the air, deploying a military aircraft in search of Hartley’s body.
CBS also reported on Friday that police have video of the Hartleys being pulled over shortly before they went to the lake, which corroborates the timeline of Tiffany’s story.
“There’s no reason for us to doubt what she’s saying,” Gonzalez said. “Our investigation is really for us to get a body.”
The problem is that we had a similar case that ended here in Panama.
British citizen fakes death at sea. No body found or anything else. Wife collects on life insurance and comes to Panama.
She buys an apartment, new car, etc.
Dead husband joins her here in Panama to find she now has a boyfriend.
What to do? He is legally dead.
None the less, they tried to scam their insurance company. This why I question this as a possible angle.